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WATERVILLE" This story begins in a small town in Maine. It is about several families, all fictional, who live, work, or go to school there, and whom you may follow as they go through many of life's challenges, either succeeding or failing to conquer them. People I have known, and who have lived through these situations, as well as events I myself have experienced, all figure into the various scenarios presented here. It is a comfortable, relax...

The inspirational genre is set to gain a talented and thoughtful newcomer in writer-thinker J.D. Gordon, who is scheduled to release his first, unique inspirational picture-and-quotations book. Now available online and will be available at your local bookstore as of November 27, 2007. These thoughts are both witty and provocative and can be used by speechmakers and writers who need pertinent truths to illustrate their points or just to add ing...

In recent years, the world has offered its own versions of the truth behind Christianity: the Da Vinci Code, the secret gospels and secret societies within the Church. But here is a book with a difference that offers its readers the real mystery of the Christian faith. The Bible actually records God's own version of "the Great Mystery" of Christianity. The apostles and prophets in the first century church were guardians of a secret knowledge w...

In 2003, R. Larry Todd's biography, Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, was published to near universal acclaim. It was immediately hailed as the definitive biography of this important composer. In researching Mendelssohn's life over the last two and a half decades, Todd uncovered much new information about the composer, his family, and his peers. Not all of this material would fit within the confines of a critical biography, so he has presented the...

When R. Larry Todd¿s biography, Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, appeared in 2003, it won acclaim from several critics as a definitive biography. In researching Mendelssohn¿s life over the last two and a half decades, Todd uncovered much new information about the composer and his music, his family and his peers, and his complex reception history. Now, as we approach the 2009 bicentenary of Mendelssohn¿s birth, the author has chosen and compiled f...

Introduces a dialogue between Eastern and Western philosophies and perspectives on the subject of curriculum theory and practice. This book questions taken-for-granted thinking in Western educational thought about the foundations of teaching and learning, curriculum theory, educational policy, and educational issues.

Explores numerous theoretical problems that arise in the mathematical description of capillary flows. This work focuses on developing a unified approach to a variety of seemingly very different capillary flows of practical importance where classical fluid mechanics leads to non-physical results.

Looks at the fluctuations of black suffrage in the ante-bellum North, using the four states of New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island as examples. This work offers a framework for understanding and explaining how the issue of voting rights for blacks unfolded between the drafting of the Constitution, and the end of the Civil War.

This innovative book brings together two disciplines ¿ science and art ¿ and enables readers to produce their own computer-generated displays. 44 colour plates and 200 black and white pictures showcase the diagrams that can easily be reproduced using the accompanying CD-ROM. It is possible to create diagrams that indicate predictability or unpredictability of physical, chemical, ecological, mathematical or economic systems. Grey levels and col...

A resource on life in Texas. This work presents color photos of Texas from the Gulf of Mexico to the West Texas mountains. It includes color relief maps of the state and each of its 254 counties, showing topography, major and minor roads, waterways, and parks.

Workbooks reinforce language through controlled grammar practice, recycled academic vocabulary, and an extended writing tutorial.

The seductive, iconic figure of the vampire has its origin in the gothic short story, The Vampyre, which is paired here with a second, scandalous story of sibling incest in wartime, Ernestus Berchtold.

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Focusing on how a machine 'feels' and behaves while operating, this book intends to impart both intellectual and emotional comprehension regarding the 'life' of a machine. It presents a description of how machines elements function, seeking to form a sympathetic attitude toward the machine and to ensure its wellbeing through more careful design.

Combining discourse and comparative historical methods of analysis, this book explores how colonialists and anti-colonialists renegotiated transnational power relationships within the debates on decolonization in the United Nations from 1946-1960. Shrewdly bringing together Sociology, Women 's Studies, History, and Postcolonial Studies, it is interested in the following questions: how are modern constructions of gender and race forged in trans...

Thomas Pynchon's writing of postmodern fiction has been characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, and as a series of complex and esoteric language games. This study attempts to demonstrate, however, that an oblique yet compelling sense of the "political" Pynchon disappears all too easily under the mantle of post modernity.

This new edition of a now classic work provides an up to date checklist of one of the richest orchid floras, with descriptive and diagnostic notes on each species compiled and written by a team of leading international experts.

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